Reflective Journal on Communication and Social Media

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Reflection on communication today:
Communication is a one way or two-way process that acts as the channel for
connecting people physically or digitally. This communication can be associated with sharing
of thoughts, ideas, information in form of message from one person to another. To me,
communication is process coding decoding where the sender sends a message to the receiver
who decode the message then encode the sender a feedback (Ruesch et al. 2017).
Communication effectively helps the people to make friends in one hand and connects people
with one another. We communicate to make the things happen which we often try to have in
our lives. Unlike all other things it is something which we humans do each and every day. To
me, the communication system has been quite changed from the past. Today’s
communication is somehow related with the desire of various people who try to indulge in
serving their own necessities through their communication. For instance, we can talk about
the necessity of communication process by various people attached with carious occupations
like effective leaders, managers, legal practitioners, medical professionals, social workers,
accountants, human resource managers or people working in any other profession (Hovland
and Lumsdaine 2017). The communication process of these people are directly related to
their work hence their communication has a supportive, purposeful and flexible manner.
To me communication is the chief element of building relationship for which we need to be
competent communicators. There are six chief elements of communication that has shaped
the style, process and structure of todays’ communication. each of these elements are
somehow related with the Lasswell’s Models of communication. In today’s world, the
interactive quality of communication has been designed by the presence of the
communicators. For example, I have seen people talking with each other in a most involved
way and building relation or maintaining them but when the same people communicate via

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electronic communication methods, do not show same eagerness and involvement with each
other (Ling 2017). In addition to this, according to Shannon and Weaver there are some
barriers of communication which are called noise which affect both the the verbal as well as
nonverbal communication among the people. I today’s world the communication style has
faced major change due to advent of instant messaging. This have in one hand reduced the
notice of the message transmitted to the receiver yet has reduced the effect of communication
that the people used to enjoy which communicating in the past. Through various channels the
messages reach to the audience however, different contexts have differently affected the
communication method (Moray 2017). I think as communication can directly affect
relationship so also, relationships effectively affect communication of the people. Moreover,
there are influence of cultural factors as well as time that regulate the effect and approach of
the communication of the people.
The influence of communication has a far reaching effect on the business now a day (Kim
and Song 2016). Despite the fact this type of communication mainly focusses on the
knowledge sharing process and can be done through online, face to face and engagements.
These business communication may have horizontal as well as vertical characteristics based
on which the employees communicate with their managers and the vice versa. Through this I
have learnt that the business communication is closely related to the fields of professional
communication and technical communication based on which there are conflicts among eth
organisations as well as various departments of one organisation (ariello, Gallo and Orange
2017). To me communication is the chief factor which gives birth to the argument among
people. Either they do not listen to what is being told or they do not understand the meaning
or essence of the communication. therefore, some questions have come in my mind. These
are- has communication really been changed from the past era? What are the essential factors